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Stamatis Zampetakis commented on CALCITE-4575:
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LEGAL-288 is closed and this is an ASF decision. People may disagree but as
long as the status has not changed I think it counts as a guideline.
We can create a new JIRA in LEGAL and ask explicitly permission to include the
wrapper in the release of Calcite/Avatica but I think the outcome will be the
same. Do you think it is worth going this way [~vladimirsitnikov]?
> Remove Gradle wrapper from source distribution
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>
> Key: CALCITE-4575
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-4575
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Julian Hyde
> Priority: Major
>
> Apache release policy does not allow binary files in source releases, and in
> particular not JAR files. Calcite and Avatica source code includes the Gradle
> wrapper, which requires {{gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar}}. The policy
> [exempts a few build tools, but the Gradle wrapper is not among
> them|https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd1aabe5052b5bedf3eceebd331f878b92a8ade6d4ca170f845d5db37%40%3Clegal-discuss.apache.org%3E].
> A request to expand the list (see LEGAL-288) was denied.
> In my opinion, the list should be expanded to include {{gradle-wrapper.jar}},
> but that is not current policy.
> I propose to solve this by removing the Gradle wrapper from the source
> distribution and amending {{site/_docs/howto.md}} to explain that people
> building from a source distribution (not from Git) need to install a
> particular version of Gradle first. The list of files to be removed from the
> source distribution is as follows:
> * {{gradlew}}
> * {{gradlew.bat}}
> * {{gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar}}
> * {{gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties}}
> These files would not be removed from Git.
> In future, anyone upgrading Gradle would also need to edit the version in
> {{site/_docs/howto.md}}.
> (Note that OFBIZ-10145 is another solution to this problem. In my opinion, it
> is an inferior solution for our case. It is more complicated for people
> building from Git, and would require us to maintain the shell scripts that
> replace the functionality of {{gradle-wrapper.jar}}.)
> This change needs to be applied to both Calcite and Avatica.
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